Basketball Quotes

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. (Tiger Woods)
Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics. You "take in" a baseball game, something odd to say about a football or basketball game, with the clock running and the bodies flying. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. View quote
Magic Johnson
I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing. View quote
Shaquille O'Neal
I'm the basketball version of a gravedigger. View quote
Dennis Rodman
My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out. View quote
Chris Brown
I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy. View quote
Chris Brown
A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That's how I want you to play. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski
That's what I do now: I lead and I teach. If we win basketball games from doing that, then that's great, but I lead and teach. Those are the two things I concentrate on. View quote
Mike Krzyzewski
I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line. View quote
Bo Jackson
I sail, scuba dive, play football, basketball. (Casper Van Dien)
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot. View quote
Oscar Robertson
You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os. View quote
Oscar Robertson
You don't cut anywhere, don't pick down anywhere, don't double screen, no weak side picking. All these things that should happen in a game of basketball don't happen anymore. View quote
Oscar Robertson
I try to never lose sight of what a special time it is to be a women's basketball player. View quote
Sue Wicks
So like any football or basketball coach, you always always believe you're going to win. View quote
Colin Powell
Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much. View quote
Larry Bird
I was always making decisions and they were easier decisions because I had control of the game, I had control of the ball. As a coach you sort of put the ball in other player's hands and let them make decisions for you. But I still get a kick out of winning basketball games and that's what I'm in this for. View quote
Larry Bird
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. View quote
Charles Barkley
I was in Chicago in 1994 and at this time I had no thoughts of coming back and playing the game of basketball, Bryon Russell came over to me and said, "Why'd you quit? You know I could guard you." When I did come back in 1995 and we played Utah in '96, I'm at the center circle and Bryon Russell is standing next to me. I said, "You remember what you said in 1994 about, 'I think I can guard you, I can shut you down, I would love to play against you?' View quote
Michael Jordan
By the way, I've been called worse on the basketball court. Its not a big deal. (Barack Obama)
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. View quote
Novak Djokovic
One basketball to rule them all,” Leo muttered. View quote
Rick Riordan
The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine. View quote
Cindy Crawford
My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck. View quote
Shaquille O'Neal